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(Reuters) – Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ video game racked up more than $400 million in sales on its first day in stores in the United States and the United Kingdom. Activision said in a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private equity firms including KKR and TPG Capital are looking to potentially buy minority stakes of up to 20 percent in Yahoo Inc with an eye to eventually taking over the whole company, people with knowledge of the...

From the 1970s table-tennis game “Pong” to the fast-paced, total-immersion of modern-day hits like “Call of Duty”, a new show retracing the four-decade history of the video game opened Thursday in Paris. Visitors can try...

A district court judge in Virginia ruled Thursday that U.S federal investigators can collect the private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to WikiLeaks. The judge also refused to unseal court documents that...

WASHINGTON — Facebook will agree to independent privacy audits for 20 years under a proposed settlement with US regulators over changes to its privacy settings, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The newspaper, quoting people familiar...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Dear reader, if Jane Austen lived today, she’d be an avid blogger, she’d be on Facebook, and of course she’d also be tweeting away — but mostly about other people, not herself. That’s because...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc halted development of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, surrendering to Apple Inc in a war over Web standards as the company surprised investors with a restructuring plan. While the matter might...

OTTAWA — Research In Motion said Wednesday it is investigating reports of Blackberry users still experiencing email woes, after a service outage affected millions of people worldwide last month. “We’re getting reports that some users...

Legislation introduced by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) would allow states to collect sales taxes from online businesses that have no physical presence in the state. Online retailers have been exempted...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cable companies will offer high-speed Internet service to low-income families in the United States at around a fifth of the national average price, the top communications regulator said on Wednesday. Families who...

Asia’s only major-winner Y.E. Yang said Wednesday he had stopped using a coach and is instead picking up tips from YouTube as he bids to recover his best form. The South Korean star said he had been trying to improve his swing by...

Kesa Electricals on Wednesday said it had agreed to sell its loss-making retail arm Comet for a nominal fee of £2.0 to private-equity firm OpCapita. However Kesa has also agreed to inject £50 million into the business and retain responsibility...

WASHINGTON — The White House warned on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would veto a resolution introduced in the Senate that seeks to overturn “net neutrality” rules aimed at ensuring an open Internet. The House of...

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt Tuesday praised South Korea’s advances in the IT industry but urged it to ease regulations on Internet use. “It’s my view, and I think Google’s view, that regulations on theInternet...